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Lib. (MB)
Thank you very much.
Thank you for being here this morning.
I have a number of questions. My understanding is that your funding is both through core funding and program funding. Am I correct? The disparity between the percentage of federal funding in each jurisdiction and the provincial funding would in part be related to the amount of programming a friendship centre chooses to do. Is that a fair comment?
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Lib. (MB)
Programming.
I'm from Winnipeg. I've been to the friendship centre there, which you know is a very large and vibrant facility. I'm interested in the gaps in programming that you see a need for, that friendship centres can address. Obviously I'm focusing on Winnipeg, and I'm focusing on some of the prevention programs that are needed for young people who are engaged in all kinds of unsavoury behaviour. I'd be interested in hearing from you what the glaring gaps are—either pick some communities or go nationally—you see friendship centres could address if the resources were in place.
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Lib. (MB)
Who will the witnesses be on Thursday?
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Lib. (MB)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you again for being here, Ms. Block.
Let me just say at the outset that I take great exception to your characterizing those who did not support this bill coming to committee as being opposed to transparency. I speak for myself as one who sat for days, 24 hours around the clock, to deal with Bill C-7 in 2002, which dealt with many of the issues related to transparency, and as one who advocated very strongly for the Kelowna accord, which very much advocated and had the tools and the infrastructure and had followed the processes of consultation that many of us value in developing legislation related to aboriginal people.
What I am most concerned about is how you reconcile this bill calling for transparency with your own government's unwillingness or inability or blockage of transparency of many other issues that are coming before this House. I just find the hypocrisy of it breathtaking.
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Lib. (MB)
You're not answering my question, though. How do you reconcile this bill with the blockage of information by, and the lack of transparency of, your own government on so many of the issues that members of Parliament are requesting information on?
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Lib. (MB)
I find that I'm repeating myself, but I find the lack of consistency and your unwillingness to address the real issues facing this Parliament right now quite stunning.
But thank you.
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Lib. (MB)
Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Let me begin by thanking you very much for coming here. It's not very often that a committee summons members of the bureaucracy or the civil service to come to a meeting, and I appreciate that this is a challenge for you.
I am also finding it very difficult to reconcile some of what we're hearing this morning with the memo of May 7. I'm wondering if you could tell the committee who briefed you prior to your appearance here today, or provided advice, either written or oral advice.
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Lib. (MB)
Could you provide us with the names of those individuals, please, either now or in writing? I would appreciate it very much.
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Lib. (MB)
Thank you.
My colleague was speaking about the submission from the Feminist Alliance for International Action and, as I say, I'm having a hard time reconciling some of what you're saying here today. They provided a very comprehensive brief and did extensive analysis. I've looked at the graph--I'd be happy to provide it to you if you haven't seen it already--on the use of the phrase “gender equality”, the use of the word “gender”, excluding the use of the word “gender” and the phrase “gender equality”, and the total uses of the word “gender”, including it as part of the phrase “gender equality”. Canada, in each of those categories, referenced gender, gender equality, or whatever, once, and in one instance, twice.
They did extensive research here, and when you take a look at what the other countries have done, you'll see that there is significant use of the words “gender equality” or “gender” in whatever form. I'm looking at an example to give you. In Belgium, it was a total of 95 times; in the Netherlands, a total of 123 times, and in Sweden, 51 times.
How is it compatible, these different uses of language between Canada and other countries? Because quite clearly, based on their analysis, we're out of step with what other countries are doing.
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Lib. (MB)
If I might comment, the action plan is a very fine document, and I commend you, Ms. Golberg, on the work that has been done, but as we all know, language matters. I appreciate your comments, but in the context of this memo and in the context of what we are hearing from community groups--and I appreciate that you are doing the best you can do with what you have to do it with--I do submit that language matters, and it's unfortunate that we cannot use the language that's used more universally in other countries.
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Lib. (MB)
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Ministers, thank you both very much for being here today. We've been waiting for this, and we're pleased to have you here.
As you know and as you've referenced, the committee has focused much of its work over the last while on issues related to violence against women. In particular, during the last Parliament we studied the issue of human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and, as you know, we're looking at the issue of violence against aboriginal women. We've travelled extensively in the country and have seen an ugly underbelly that exists in this country and that many of us were quite shocked to realize the full extent of.
I'm pleased that you're both here, as you're both ministers responsible for government's policies related to violence against women. I have some particular questions, and because I have so many questions, I'd appreciate your keeping your answers brief to allow me to try to get through the questions.
In 2008 the House of Commons unanimously passed a motion calling on the government to develop and implement a national violence against women prevention strategy. Has the government done this? Is there a national violence against women prevention strategy?
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Lib. (MB)
I don't want to be rude, Minister, but is there a strategy that has been developed, an actual strategy? I'm assuming that if it's there, you could table it with this committee today.
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